A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

Geoscientists have long thought that water -- along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust -- drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools, scientists have learned that ...

Analysis of the chemical make up of two asteroids in the outer asteroid belt has thrown the classification system for these small bodies, which orbit between Mars and Jupiter, into disorder. The ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Most volcanic eruptions are of the basaltic variety. The eruptions are typically rather tame. Every once in a while, however, the same types of eruptions turn violent and explosive.

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera, which is located in eastern Idaho and west of Yellowstone National Park, occurred ...

Study reveals which conditions can render basaltic volcanoes highly destructive More than half of the world’s volcanoes are basaltic. Most basaltic eruptions tend to ooze their magma out in a ...